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Answer for the clue "Sport performed off shore ", 7 letters:
surfing

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The pastime or sport of riding surf on a surfboard. 2 The action of the verb '''to surf'''. vb. (present participle of surf English)

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1955, verbal noun from surf (v.). The surfing craze went nationwide in U.S. from California in 1963. Surf-board is from 1826, originally in a Hawaiian and Polynesian context. Surf music attested from 1963.\n\nIt is highly amusing to a stranger to go out ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Surfing is a surface water sport in which the wave rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward or deep face of a moving wave , which is usually carrying the surfer towards the shore . Waves suitable for surfing are primarily found in the ocean ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES channel surfing kite surfing surfing the Net (= looking at information in different places on the Internet ) ▪ Bruce spends most evenings surfing the Net . PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES extreme sports/surfing/skiing etc ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the sport of riding a surfboard toward the shore on the crest of a wave [syn: surfboarding , surfriding ]

Usage examples of surfing.

University of Tennessee, channel surfing as he drifted on a cloud of fentanyl scored from an appendectomy.

But every time she began to show her years, Hina went surfing and came back renewed and restored.

I was surfing a bright blue wave of psychotropic love sweet love, and my natural horniness had been elevated to the level of moonstruck monkey.

It was all there, the full moon, the small mild surf showing white, the pale sands of the tiny beach set down among the rocks and glowing weirdly in the moonlight, the low wind surfing through the kiawe trees across the highway, and he had brought a bottle and there was a Thermos full of coffee and the sandwiches she had brought, and even blankets.

She was riding right in the curl of the wave, surfing the interface, wakening into the Dreamtime in full sentient awareness.

During the time it took me to leave the office and do the shopping I got a lot of requests on my recent papers, some of them from TV research AIs surfing for background material they could use to fill out the hyperlinks on their permitted fifty-word byline, which was going to explain, very quietly, that Sankhara was no longer issuing visas of any kind and that all nonresidential permits were, as of this evening, revoked.

I also mention, in passing, the part about Elizabeth being a preppie, and Roberta liking Ziggy, and how both of these facts made them highly unlikely candidates for elevator surfing.

Ten feet behind him, the owner of this cursed device is surfing, taking him for a ride, skateboarding along like a water skier behind a boat.

Superhero Androids the way the forehead cloths identify Surfing Samurai Robots.

Whipper hired me as bodyguard for the whole surfing set, Grampa Zamp included.

Kids who might have been eager computer-intruders a mere five years earlier were now surfing the Internet, where their natural urge to explore led them into cyberspace landscapes of such mindboggling vastness that the very idea of hacking passwords seemed rather a waste of time.

Dem Lia, seeing the flight path of so many of the Ousters now rolling and sliding and surging along these shock fronts of ions, magnetic fields, and cosmic rays, holding their positions with wings of glowing forcefield energy as the solar wind propagated first forward and then backward along the magnetic-field lines, and finally surfing the shock waves forward again as speedier bursts of solar winds crashed into more sluggish waves ahead of them, creating temporary tsunami that rolled out-system and then flowed backward like a heavy surf rolling back in toward the blazing beach of the G8 sun.

Classic surfing tournament, the waves were fifteen feet high, and a hundred photographers angled for good shots.

Motorcycle gangs surfing against surfers would look less suspicious than gorillas surfing against surfers.

If my luck holds out, you'll have the address of Surfing Samurai Robots.